A man who threw a pint glass at a woman attending his child’s christening and left the victim with scars and nerve damage to her eye has been jailed for 18 months.

St Patrick’s Day parades bring out the best in our towns and cities,Richard Fitzpatrick reports.

The Voice Squad first performed together in 1985 and went on to sing at the Special Olympics in 2003. Their talents are still very much in demand.

ST. BRIGID’S won their fifth Roscommon senior football title in seven seasons with a hard-earned victory over a resolute Elphin side a wet and dreary Dr Hyde Park.

EU Employment Commissioner Laszlo Andor is to visit the mid-west region to inspect progress on the distribution of a €22 million European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to former Dell workers.

LONG-RUNNING plans to provide a cafe and other services on Great Blasket island will be the subject of a Bord Pleanála hearing in Dingle next month.

A TORTUOUS saga surrounding Government plans to buy the Great Blasket Island is set to continue even further, it emerged at the weekend.

A LONG-RUNNING plan by the Government to buy the Great Blasket island has run into difficulties yet again.

OWNERS of the historic Great Blasket island in Kerry are understood to be on the brink of a purchase agreement with the Government, though the granting of planning permission for development on the island is still a key issue.

COLD water is continuing to be poured over an €8.5m development plan for the Great Blasket island.

AN €8.5 million plan to make the Great Blasket island a national historic park is in “grave jeopardy” following the refusal of An Bord Pleanála to give planning permission for a café, the biggest landowner on the island warned yesterday.